‘My wife is bad influence on our children’

F0rty-year-old Maliki Saliu has urged the Oshodi Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve his marriage with his wife, Aminat.

He told the court that he wanted the union dissolved because of his wife’s stubbornness and attitude towards him.

“My wife is too stubborn, she threatens my life, she uses abusive language and she is never satisfied with whatever she has and some other irreconcilable issues,” he said.

Saliu added that they had been married for 18 years and blessed with two children, Biliki and Bashiru.

He said the problem started sometime early 2012 when his wife threw all his belongings out of the house and threatened his life and that was why he left the house to marry another wife.

He told the court that his wife made his children not to respect him, adding that they abused and talked to him without respect.

“My daughter always abuses me because that is what her mother does in her presence, even my son does not sleep in the house and his mother cannot caution him.

“Although my son stays with me, he sleeps in a demolished building beside his mother’s shop. Whenever I advise my wife about our children, she tells me that she can’t kill herself,” he explained.

Aminat, however, told the court that her daughter doesn’t respect her either and people think she is the one behind all her disrespectful acts to her father.

“When we came to court the last time and the court told Saliu to go and pay Biliki’s WASSCE fee, I heard when she later told her father that he should not pay her school fees to a particular school, but to Adams’ lesson,” she said.

The court president, Alhaja I. A. Olorunimbe, told Saliu to pay Biliki’s WASSCE fee to her school and pay her lesson fee to Adams’ lesson until the exam commenced.

She also urged the couple to take their son, Bashiru, back to his school in the village and advised Biliki to face her studies and respect her parents. The case was adjourned

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